Afghan intelligence agents have scuttled a plot to assassinate outspoken US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, swooping down on a station wagon carrying three Pakistanis armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, officials said today.

A MEMBER of the first British suicide bomb mission to Israel was encouraged to go by his sister, a court heard yesterday.

Three people are appearing in court on terrorism charges today after a Briton carried out a suicide bomb attack in Israel that killed three people.

A Pakistani man today confessed to attacking the US cultural centre in Calcutta, as he was dying after a shoot-out with Indian police, the Indian government said.